DIY Acrylic Aquarium - My first build.

In this video I build my very first DIY acrylic aquarium / fish tank. I build it out of acrylic and I talk through my experience of doing this.

[@zippot1197]

ive never cheered a video before but god I was hoping you cured your leak. It was lovely to here a non american accent hope your fit and well i dont know if you have posted lately but I hope your fit and well ,going to look at your other videos now. down to earth real life just how we like it

[@slotreality]

Nice

[@havoc2000]

Good job. I make and cut\ship Acrylite acrylic for a living, as well as the acrylic cements. I get the material for free, all cut to my size, edge polished and all. I am going to make a few tanks slightly larger than the one you built. I will have them a foot or so apart and connected with acrylic tubing, creating tunnels for the fish. Should be quite cool. I will also make a bio-filter. I have too much going on right now to start building, but in the near future, I will make them, and then build an enclosed stand to hide filtration. I will also add a UV sterilizer. I had all that when I had my last 125 salt water setup. I miss it, so want to start over, but make my own. It will be smaller, but cooler.

[@bigmastiffped3911]

Nice 1 m8

[@m.n.9496]

I love your honesty, gives us realistic expectations

[@MavenMarine]

Great job!

[@geophilgusfishkeeping6071]

Thank you! Appreciate your support.

[@jordanjones2154]

Nice video, glad you kept in the issues and didn't cut them out. Not everything goes right first time and people shouldn't pretend it does!

[@geophilgusfishkeeping6071]

Thank you Jordan! I think it's important to leave the issues in, sometimes things look very easy for anyone to do regardless of experience and skills but that isn't always the case and that's part of what I want to bring to this channel...the reality of ANYONE doing these projects. Thank you for the continued support.

[@leebroadbent1340]

Well done mate. On to bigger things 😉

[@geophilgusfishkeeping6071]

Thanks mate, definitely will be attempting a bigger tank next time...hopefully soon.

[@bobogliddabrun]

Don't use polished edge acrylic sheeting and definitely not extruded acrylic as you have here. Thankfully it is a small tank so you may get away with it but for anything larger use cell cast with routed or scraped edges. I got the cast acrylic for my 120x40x40cm from the same company

[@danielhood6697]

Hi, I was thinking of trying this myself, starting off small. Would you be able to provide a link to the acrylic you used from the website. Thankyou

[@gary9732]

hi I've always been told a tip that if you are doing a 70 gallon or more always use 15mm or thicker acrylic under 70 gallon use 10mm thick only but NO THINNER

[@HWolfe]

New Subbie from the U.S. TFS and such honesty!

[@samuelmillers5709]

Did you ever build any other tanks? If so how did you get on

[@NessysSanctuary]

But but how much did it cost,........I have to do this ,,,,Thanks

[@jdofishtank6018]

Is this the tank your flowerhorn is in?

[@geophilgusfishkeeping6071]

Yeah sure is. Next one will be bigger and stronger 🤞🏼

[@AHLive215]

Ho many gallons